The Commens Dictionary

Quote from ‘Logical Tracts. No. 1. On Existential Graphs’

Term: 
Proposition
Quote: 

An informant index is a proposition. For one cannot better define a proposition (as distinguished from the assertion whereby one assumes responsibility for its truth) than as a representation of which one part serves, directly or indirectly, as an index of its object, while the other part excites in the mind an image of the same object.

Source: 
Peirce, Charles S. (1903 [c.]). Logical Tracts. No. 1. On Existential Graphs. MS [R] 491
Date: 
1903 [c.]
References: 
MS [R] 491:5
Citation: 
‘Proposition’ (pub. 13.01.15-11:11). Quote in M. Bergman & S. Paavola (Eds.), The Commens Dictionary: Peirce's Terms in His Own Words. New Edition. Retrieved from http://www.commens.org/dictionary/entry/quote-logical-tracts-no-1-existential-graphs-5.
Posted: 
Jan 13, 2015, 11:11 by Mats Bergman